Actor Tate Donovan speaks in front of the Pentacrest Monday night in Iowa City as part of the Obama campaign's Gotta Vote Bus Tour.

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Josh O?Leary
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Twitter feeds, Facebook ads and dot-com addresses may the be modern wave of presidential campaigns, but President Obama and Mitt Romney's election teams are taking an old-school approach to courting Iowa voters this week.

The two candidates' campaigns, wrangling over this battleground state and its small but potentially pivotal number of electoral votes, are rolling through Iowa on dueling barn-storming bus tours as Election Day draws near.

On Monday night, the Democratic National Committee and Obama for America's "Gotta Vote" Bus Tour pulled in front of the Old Capitol, where a ...